Obama to Award Oprah the Medal of Freedom

I would summon up some outrage, but this isn’t even the hundredth trashiest thing that Obama has done in the White House. This is a cynical government that couldn’t buy class with the entire treasury at its disposal.

Finally Bill will be able to have a medal of his own after the whole Vietnam thing didn’t work out. Maybe he can try throwing his over the fence with John Kerry.

“The Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to men and women who have dedicated their own lives to enriching ours,” the president said in a written statement. “This year’s honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent, but what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world.”

This is just a case for jettisoning the Medal of Freedom. It’s a bizarre artifact of liberal Federalism. There was never supposed to be an American version of the The Légion d’honneur. We don’t have any knighthoods and we don’t need to hand out meaningless awards to important people.

This was yet another bad idea that JFK picked up from Europe and it’s worth abolishing.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

DogmaelJones1

The individuals who deserve to be awarded a “Medal of Freedom” aren’t even acknowledged to be human. They’re the ones who actually argue for freedom, day in and day out, risk being called Islamophobes or Obamaphobes and clingers to their guns and freedom of speech and notions of let-me-alone, and too often fight for freedom without compensation of any kind. Every one of the people mentioned in the article has not uttered a word in defense of freedom. They are all well-heeled beneficiaries of the welfare state and the political establishment. So, the Medal of Freedom is not only hypocritical, it isn’t worth a plug nickel.

truebearing

Freedom from what? Sanity, integrity, honesty? The Medal of Freedom can take it’s place in the Hall of Shame….right next to the Pulitzer and the Nobelol Peace prize.